Turkey are not fair in how they play

My friends, please forgive me for the sin of prophecy. All has come to pass as foreseen by me.

The turkey who vanished utterly during the week they were legal to shoot, now that week is over have come back to dance around me as I sit on the chair of my front porch sipping coffee.

Sadly I lacked the shotgun because because deer season requires black powder here this week and my old Spencer Carbine is not capable of shot.

I went inside for the camera and this time upon noticing me standing up they did not take flight or run. The end result is they were still close enough to photograph by the time I found my phone and unhooked it from the charger then came back outside.

<YES, it was indeed very, very tempting to just grab the shotgun at the front door, about face and begin blamming away. Initially they were literally just below the air conditioner and it would have been a shot even the incompetent could have probably accomplished. Range 10 feet. However, I try to be more or less law abiding, so I went for the camera instead. >

They have moved away a little distance (heading for my forest) but this would still be quite doable with my 870. Tom turkey is playing rear guard.





You may wish to zoom for better detail. For ease of uploading I grabbed the droid phone instead of a camera.

[I can barely wait for the day we get some really decent cameras built into these phones, but even this one ain't too bad and beats my circa 1998 SureShot for pic quality.]